Do not automatically change the wallet format unless the user takes an
explicit action that implies an upgrade (encrypting, for now), or uses
-walletupgrade.
-walletupgrade optionally takes an integer argument: the client version
up to which upgrading is allowed. Without an argument, it is upgraded
to latest supported version. If an argument to -walletupgrade is
provided at the time the wallet is created, the new wallet will initially
not use features beyond that version.
Third, the current wallet version number is reported in getinfo.
It could just as well be on either part of the gitian build, but to safely put it on the Qt side would require bumping the filename, and every gitian user rebuilding it.
v0.5.3.1 put it on the Bitcoin side, and this is easier to work with and keep safe, so I'm moving it.
Use `qmake MINGW_THREAD_BUGFIX=0` to disable
When a 0.6 wallet with compressed pubkeys is created, it writes a
minversion record to prevent older clients from reading it. If the 0.5
loading it sees a key record before seeing the minversion record however,
it will fail with DB_CORRUPT instead of DB_TOO_NEW.
-checkblocks now takes a numeric argument: the number of blocks that must
be verified at the end of the chain. Default is 2500, and 0 means all
blocks.
-checklevel specifies how thorough the verification must be:
0: only check whether the block exists on disk
1: verify block validity (default)
2: verify transaction index validity
3: check transaction hashes
4: check whether spent txouts were spent within the main chain
5: check whether all prevouts are marked spent
6: check whether spent txouts were spent by a valid transaction that consumes them
In cases of very large reorganisations (hundreds of blocks), a situation
may appear where an 'inv' is sent as response to a 'getblocks', but the
last block mentioned in the inv is already known to the receiver node.
However, the supplying node uses a request for this last block as a
trigger to send the rest of the inv blocks. If it never comes, the block
chain download is stuck.
This commit makes the receiver node always request the last inv'ed block,
even if it is already known, to prevent this problem.
Wladimir J. van der Laan